Speaking and listening online a survey of internet resources.

Developing listening skills comes “naturally” for some students, but with great difficulty for others. Acquiring listening skills can even be frustrating for some students. For some time, listening was regarded as a “passive” or “receptive” skill and, consequently, not particularly crucial as a skill area to be taught. 

The internet is widely used for language teaching and learning because it is rich in resources, especially audio and video. As part of our exploratory research, we surveyed 222 language teachers of a university in Vietnam regarding how they used the internet resources to teach listening and speaking skills. The results showed that teachers extensively used audiovisual materials from YouTube and news websites such as British Broadcasting Corporation, Voice of America, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, etc. Those materials were helpful for students to practise listening and speaking skills. Suggestions are also made about how to exploit those resources effectively. Although the results are context-specific, they could be valuable lessons for other teaching staff and research. 

The use of technology outside the language classroom or in the self-access centre can make learners more autonomous. One key feature of using technology in learning is that it allows language practice and study away from the confines of the classroom at your own pace anywhere

CALL Me ... Maybe:  A Framework for Integrating  the Internet into ELT

According to the article there are many ways to integrate the internet into ELT. These different ways can help the students to develop many skills that they have. Also, it helps the teachers to facilitate the teaching process. 

Something that calls my attetion it was that students can watch videos at the classroom with the only pourpuse to learn something new or, teacher can use it as a warm up or any stage. Learners will be excited about something new in the classroom. Everybody loves learn in a different and funny way. Teachers can create a group on facebook to post videos, grammar structures, audios to help them to develop their skills. Nowdays, must of the students loves check social networks and they are checking it every hour. So, It will be almost impossible to ignore the content that the teacher share with them.

There is another part from all of these point of views. The ones who doesn't have access to Internet. We already discuss about the benefits using the internet in the classroom but, just for the ones who has Internet.

Blending technologies in ESL courses.

Blended learning refers to the combination of multimedia elements on a computer with classroom instruction with a teacher and peers. Although the TALL system began using blended learning over a decade ago, the concept has only recently gained currency in the world of computer assisted learning. 

The adoption of computer technology in all aspects of human lives in the last decade has led to its growing presence in educational settings. Teaching and learning do not have to take place in the traditional face-to-face classroom anymore and students increasingly expect some level of computer-mediated instruction in their college classes. This amount of

computer-mediated instruction can vary from, for example, students accessing the class syllabus and notes online to students taking part in online simulations of lab experiments.

According to Picciano (2009), classes where face-to-face and online activities are integrated in a planned, pedagogically valuable manner and where online activities replace a portion of face-to-face time are blended learning classes.

Effectiveness of the Integration of

ICT Tools and Activities to Foster

Awareness as the First Stage to

Reach Learning Autonomy

 

According to this article the autonomy of learning is the ability of students to improve and develop by them self under they responsability. Also, they can improve and develop different skills in the classroom by doing different kind of exercises usign ICT Tools it would be fun for them and also they will learn a lot developing their own skills. For that reason it is really important for teachers to being careful with activities that they would implement in the classroom for the students. We have the responsability to increase their cognitive process by activities in the classroom.

Acoording to this, pupils have to be responsable for their own learning process when they use ICT Tools to develop their skills. They sould watch the correct videos. Use the tools with the only one pourpuse of study what they have to study.